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What Is Knowledge As The Information You Understand From Experience Or Education? Essay

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At a glance my reaction to this question was of course we will value knowledge if it requires a more difficult understanding. If it is difficult it must be of value. However, the more I looked at the question I began to realize that the question makes the assumption that knowledge is only valued if produced with difficulty. Like my first reaction the notion of the question is quite limited. it cannot be assumed that when something is difficult for one that it is difficult for another. When looking closer at the question I recognized that we can also value knowledge on its applicability not necessarily on its difficulty level. One example could be seen when looking at a theory in physics it may have been very difficult to produce however be useless in the perspective of an artist who has no use for that knowledge. But before we can analyze the question we must really understand the question. In this essay I will be defining knowledge as the information you understand from experience or education. Produce will be defined as creating new knowledge. Difficulty will be defined as how many techniques involved in the process of creating. Value will be defined as a unit 's usefulness or importance and truly valued will be defined as the respect or importance given to knowledge. This introduces a different perspective in the question of shared knowledge vs personal knowledge. This is because one may value their personal knowledge more regardless of the difficulty or one may value

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